A Tree Falls in Park Slope
The hurricane isn’t even here yet but there’s already a tree down. A reader just sent in this photo taken from 6th Avenue looking west on Berkeley Place in Park Slope. “Police, ambulance, and fire here. No one looks hurt,” says the tipster. “The school maintenance guy thought the police and fire responded because kids…
The hurricane isn’t even here yet but there’s already a tree down. A reader just sent in this photo taken from 6th Avenue looking west on Berkeley Place in Park Slope. “Police, ambulance, and fire here. No one looks hurt,” says the tipster. “The school maintenance guy thought the police and fire responded because kids were setting the school garbage on fire during the night.”
“If you at some point actually work hard to afford something besides a bong and beanbag, you’ll understand.”
keep dreamin, bsd, keep dreamin.
Rob, this wasnt a funny “so what it happens all the time” occurance for at least one person, who’s day is ruined and will be spending precious time/money to deal with it. If you at some point actually work hard to afford something besides a bong and beanbag, you’ll understand.
Suggestion to bike lane haters, on this thread and elsewhere:
Just give it a rest. The silly alarmist comments, false choices and conspiracy theories really don’t accomplish anything constructive. Other than giving me (and others?) a clear mental image of your probable physical manifestation (which is not an attractive image, by the way).
there are two topics (at least) on brownstoner that I will absolutely not comment on.
1) bicycle lanes that take up a lane of real traffic.
2) boiler room inspection by prospective co-op buyers.
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Making the streets safer is not “mania,” it’s SANITY.
lets just ban everything on wheels. people turn into ass-holes when they use wheels. it’s so primative anyway.
*rob*
Mine was a few cars behind, the car that got hit has a partially caved in roof, smashed windshield and side. An unfortunate thing to wake up to.
The fire that was set was not some little wastebasket fire, it was a big pile of trashbags (6-12 maybe?) from the school. A crew was cleaning it up, and it was hot enough to have melted the front left of a CLS 500. Effing humans.
Why is this an either/or thing? Is this city too lame to maintain trees AND build bike lanes simultaneously? Making the streets safer is not “mania,” it’s SANITY.
“Once the city gets the bike lane mania out of its system (it probably won’t be long now) it should dedicate itself to other public works such as maintaining, not just planting, street trees.”
why can’t they trim trees and make the streets safer? are these two things mutually exclusive?
Americans unlike Europeans have never had a tradition of pollarding or trimming trees. Here we think the tree should do its thing. While I agree with this approach in country settings, here in the city Parks should inspect and prune street trees. On my block a huge London Plane tree branch -those trees tend to have almost horizontal branches- crashed down a few days ago. Fortunately, as far as I know, no one happened to be under it at the time.
Once the city gets the bike lane mania out of its system (it probably won’t be long now) it should dedicate itself to other public works such as maintaining, not just planting, street trees.